Partitions: hda1 => Mandrake Linux 7.2 (installed first) hda5 => Debian potato (stable - don't play with it) hda6 => Mandrake 8.0 beta1 hda7 => Debian potato (sandbox - play here and then move to stable) Problem: During boot, on any Linux version except ML 7.2, there are dependency errors listed where the error message contains a reference to the kernel in ML 7.2. In order to get a clean boot I have to sue a floppy that was created when the OS in a partition was installed. I've read three O'Reilly books, the LILO HOW-TOs and a lot of posts and replies regarding LILO. In fact one of the O'Reilly books, Linux In A Nutshell, seems flat out wrong in their example. When I try to adapt my lilo.conf to look like theirs it produces LILO syntax errors. Does grub get around these problems? Can (and how do) you install it from binaries? What am I missing? Can anyone give me some pointers? My current lilo.conf file follows the signature. Thanks, -rick boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=ML7.2_stable keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw # Mandrake stable image=/boot/vmlinuz label=ML7.2_stable root=/dev/hda1 read-only # Debian image=/boot/vmlinuz label=Debian_stable root=/dev/hda5 read-only # Mandrake 8.0 beta image=/boot/vmlinuz label=ML8.0_test root=/dev/hda6 read-only # Debian sandbox image=/boot/vmlinuz label=Debian_test root=/dev/hda7 read-only # image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda1 append=" failsafe" read-only # other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe
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